Word: demurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mountain will. Vassar may move to New Haven and become a "co-ordinate college." Just like us. Of course the alliteration should be a clue that the may is to become will. Vassar President Simpson's acceptance of Yale's invitation to study the plan was demur enough. But he couldn't stop an alliterative joy -- "modern mission," "historic home," "properly preserved," "prodigious problems" -- from bubbling through his statement...
...June 3] of those who would enjoy the harvest without the labor are empty and redundant. Joe College '66 is a sad, disgusting example for my children to have to follow. He tempts me to resign to avoid contributing to the security in which he is free to demur and complain...
...Haley, who also happens to be an ex-president of the American Rocket Society. Haley argues that a nation's airspace is best defined by the altitude (about 50 miles) at which the atmosphere becomes too thin to provide further aerodynamic lift to aircraft. Professor McDougal and friends demur. They prefer to leave the law flexible, to let it grow with a growing accumulation of cases...